Condoms Can Still Be Evidence of Prostitution in NYC

March 24, 2011

Carrying a condom in New York City can be proof you’re a prostitute. Yes, now, in 2011. Gothamist reports that along with the City Council push to rename the Queensboro Bridge after Ed Koch, a resolution was also on the agenda yesterday meant to pressure the governor and state legislator to pass a dormant bill, which would undo this archaic rule. As it stands, a rubber can be used “as evidence of prostitution, patronizing a prostitute, promoting prostitution, permitting prostitution, maintaining a premises for prostitution, lewdness or assignation, or maintaining a bawdy house.”